Base-ball game-board.



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BASE BALL GAMB BOARD. APPLICATION :FILED JHE 1, A1904.

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CHARLES H. WOLFF, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENN SYLVANIA.`

BASE-BALL GAME-BOARD.

No. 845,888. v

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented March 5, 1907."

Application filed June 1,1904. Serial No. 210,646.

T0 all whom it may con/cern.:

Be it known that I, CHARLES H. WOLFF, a citizen of the United States,residing at Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State ofPennsylvania,` have invented certain new and useful Improvements inBase-Ball Game-Boards; and I do declare the following to be a full,clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enableothers skilled in the art to which it appertaiiis to make and use thesame, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to theletters and figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part ofthis specification.

My invention relates to game-boards, and particularly to a game-boardfor playing the game of base-ball.

It has for its object to provide a gaineboard representingthe diamondand field and figures of players positioned in the places ordinarilyoccupied by the members of a nine playing a game of base-ball, therebeing formed at the position of each player, preferably at or adjacentto the hand or hands of each player, a cavity designed to receive andhold loosely a ball, which balls it is the purpose of the game todislodge by means of an eXtra ball, which will be made larger or coloreddierently from the other balls to distinguish it from them, and then toendeavor to reinstate in its place the dislodged ball'or balls bymanipulation of the game-board in the hands of the user or player.

To the accomplishment of the foregoing and such other objects as mayhereinafter appear the invention consists in the features ofconstruction and arrangement of parts hereinafter particularly describedand then sought to be clearly defined by the claim, reference being hadto the accompanying drawing, which represents a perspective view of agame-board made in accordance with my invention.

In the drawing the numeral l designates the base of theboard inclosed bythe raised walls 2, and which may be provided at each corner with ablock 3 to sustain a glass plate which will lie over the base, and whichplate may be held in place by lips 4, which will eX tend inwardly fromthe walls 2. The base and walls and the lips may be made of metal orstiff paper or other suitable material. On the face of the base l willbe inscribed a diamond, (represented by the numerals 5 and 6,)

the lines of the diamond being preferablybrown in color and with thelines leadin from the home plate to the first base and from the thirdbase to the home plate nar.- rower or wider than the lines leading fromthe. first base to the second base and from the. latter to the thirdbase, for the purpose. of more quickly determining the several bases andpositions of the players composing the f nine, and for effect the baseof the board other than the lines indicating the run from one base toanother and to home will be designated by a green color. 'lhe figures ofthe several players are designated by the numerals 7, and they will bepositioned substantially as illustrated, so as to occupy their properplaces as usual uin playing a game of baseball. At or adjacent to thehand or hands ofeach player on the baseboard will be formed a cavity ordepression V8, in each of which cavities or depressions will be placed aball 9, while at the position of the catcher or at some other suitablepoint will be formed a depression or cavity l0, in which will be placeda ball 11, which, to distinguish it from the other balls, is illustratedas being somewhat larger than the other balls, although this ball may bedistinguished from the others by being of a different color or otherwisedistinguished.

W ith the balls in the several cavities the i board will be manipulatedso as to direct the ball 1l against the other balls in succession, withthe view of displacing said balls one after the other and to prevent thedisplaced balls being replaced in the cavities until all of the ballshave been displaced by contact therewith of the large ball 11. After theballs have been displaced then the gameboard will be manipulated so asto replace the balls in the cavities from which they were displaced.rIhe game will thus afford a source of amusement and entertainment toadults as well as children, and by practice a person may acquire suchskill in the manipulation of the board as to be able to displace theseveral balls in proper succession or in such order as he may determine.If the game be played by `two persons, for illustration, the firstperson manipulating the board will do so until he fails to dislodge oneof the balls by contact of the large ball therewith, and upon hisfailure to dislodge a ball the other person will manipulate the board,and so on in alternation, the person first dislodging the greater numberof balls winning the IOO frame. Any other rule, however, may beorrnulated between the persons playing the game for determining whatshall constitute the winning of the game.

For convenience of designation I shall designate the ball 11 as thepropelling-ball and the other balls as the positioned balls.

While the illustration of the game-board given contemplates a size suchas Can be readily manipulated bythe hands, still it can` be made on alarge scale and a eue of suitable form employed for moving thepropelling-ball. In such oase the glass ooverin for the board used onthe small sizes woulcgl be left oi or omitted. The same rules forplaying the game would prevail.

Having described my invention and set`

